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Subject: [ale] Needing to cut up server disk space
From: DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:03:15 -0400
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On 09/24/2015 07:03 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Looking at an enclosure with 8 bays.  The only hitch is the e-sata only
> addresses 5 drives max.  Is there any advantage to running ZFS over
> USB3?  Or would I be better off with raid 10 on the 5 e-sata drives?
> 
> On 09/24/2015 05:32 AM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> Too bad you don't have 6 drives - then ZFS would be easy choice.
> 

RAID has 1 purpose - HA.
Backups have 1000 purposes - restoring after a RAID bungle is one.

In a lab - I wouldn't bother with RAID.

I would NEVER use RAID on USB devices.

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- [ale] Needing to cut up server disk space
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